{"id":805,"date":"2015-10-21T07:12:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T07:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intranet.untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/?p=805"},"modified":"2015-10-21T07:14:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T07:14:46","slug":"after-mamasapano-clash-pnp-augments-special-action-force-troopers-with-over-500-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"After Mamasapano Clash, PNP Augments Special Action Force Troopers with Over 500 Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?aam_media=809\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?aam_media=809&amp;size=full\" alt=\"pnp-saf--1\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-809\" \/><\/a>The Philippine National Police was able to augment the number of its Special Action Force (SAF) troopers with over 500 this year after a series of continuous recruitment and training.<\/p>\n<p>The SAF has seen a significant decrease after the Mamasapano incident that killed international terrorist Zulkifli Binhir alias Marwan on January 25, 2015. The said clash also wiped out 44 SAF commandos.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from PNP, their recent recruitment activities pulled in an additional 548 men this year The elite force recruited 329 on July 1 and 219 on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 548 recruits, 50 percent is from Mindanao, including 50 females.<\/p>\n<p>SAF Spokesperson P\/S Insp. Jayson Abalos remarked that more individuals have become interested to join the group despite the tragic Mamasapano incident. Last year, they were only able to recruit an additional 200 troopers.<\/p>\n<p>Upon entering the SAF, Abalos explained that an applicant must undergo rigid, commando-type training to hone their skills on unconventional warfare, search and rescue, civil disturbance management, and hostage rescue.<\/p>\n<p>SAF recruits are also required to acquire knowledge on other special operations such as troop insertion, close air support and casualty evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first six months is indoctrination of the job of a police and then they will be experiencing the rudiments of a life of a policeman for the field training program,\u201d the SAF spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>After that, they will go to the SAF commando course,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the increase in SAF recruits, the force is still in need of 5,000 troopers. Currently, they only have 4,300 members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine National Police was able to augment the number of its Special Action Force (SAF) troopers with over 500 this year after a series of continuous recruitment and training. The SAF has seen a significant decrease after the Mamasapano incident that killed international terrorist Zulkifli Binhir alias Marwan on January 25, 2015. The said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,27,28,169,34,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}